Korean TV

OK, so we live off-Post (it's an Army Post, not an Air Force Base) so we don't get the government-issued TV. We do have cable TV and internet here (at least the internet is in English). The vast majority of TV channels are Korean. So there's a lot of TV dramas that have people talking to each other and to me, it feels like they're going to start hitting each other any minute. Lots of tension. Then again, they may be just saying hi- but it sure looks intense. Anyway, they also show a lot of subtitled CSI and Law and Order. I don't know how the people read that fast, because I'll glance at the characters and try to sound out the word, but it changes way too fast. I do know all the sounds to the Hangul characters, but not when they're on screen for 2 nanoseconds.
The nice thing here, is they show very limited commercials, so you see most of the show at once. Then at the end, there's 15 minutes of commercials. So you just mute the TV and get stuff done. I need to post some of the commercials here, because they're funny. There's one that's not funny at all, it's kind of scary. There's a mountain in the middle of Seoul (there's really a lot of them), with the S Korean flag (Taegugki) on the top of the mountain, and all these giant hands start digging at the mountain and the flag starts to fall. Then other giant hands grab the flag and hold it up and fix the mountain. At the very end, there's a little family and they all hold up their pointer finger and the announcer says a bunch of stuff in Korean and then the phone number 111 ("il, il, il") pops on the screen. I didn't get what it was about and my description was too hard for my ROK counterparts to understand, until one of them that used to live in the US explained it to me. It's to report N Korean activities (like if you see someone plant a bomb or do something suspicious). Brought to you by the National Intelligence Service: http://eng.nis.go.kr/app/main/index
They have an immigration threat that makes the guest worker program in the US look Nobel Peace Prize material. People mostly go to the US to work and earn money. If they come here, it's usually to assassinate someone. So they have 55 years of paranoia that's worked its way into daily life.
Other commercials are for cars, kimchi refrigerators, and telephone services. Most are weird to Americans. But they seem to get our stuff, or it wouldn't be on here.
Maybe the US should show all the commercials at the end of the show- I wouldn't complain.
The kids watch Disney Asia which is more themed toward this part of the world. I wish we could go to Hong Kong Disney from here. Maybe we'll save up some won and go.